US Presidential Election Betting Update PT 2

Ted Cruz has also moved into a much stronger position lately with a stand-out result in one Iowa Caucus poll recently that showed him ahead of Trump. It was interesting to note that virtually every media report began listing this result as the lead on many of their news broadcasts - such is the urge to show that Trump remains some type of fringe candidate. It’s fascinating to see CNN ignoring their own polls to report an outlier poll. 

Cruz remains in double digits however with a listing as good as about 10/1 at the time of this writing. Should he win the Iowa Caucuses then he would definitely see his price drop but he seems to have picked up that fluid support that Ben Carson bled out recently. 

Jeb Bush was at one point the significant favourite to receive the Republican nomination but he is now badly off the pace and languishing around 3-4% support in the polls at the moment. In a textbook example of how not to run a campaign, the Jeb! campaign has been disappointing for all concerned and is bleeding money at an extremely rapid rate. One has to wonder how much longer he stays in the race with most seeing a loss in the Iowa Caucuses as the final nail in his campaigns coffin. 

Punters will find Jeb Bush trading as high as 20/1 with several major bookmakers. 

Bernie Sanders upstart campaign will find a price of about 25/1 right now with several major bookmakers actually taking him into 22/1 or 20/1 on the heels of some solid recent performances and a building of momentum in his campaign. Should Hillary Clinton be indicted or have any real problems Sanders is in the catbird seat for sure. 

The only other plausibly-priced candidate appears to be Chris Christie and the New Jersey governor is trading at 25/1 with a few different bookmakers going as high as 33/1 right now.